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I tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was me
by dmos62 8y ago
I tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was meaning to look for a lightweight alternative. Maybe I'll try this extension again to see if it's still a resource hog.
Note: I'm on Firefox.
- mcondit 8y agounfortunately still a bit resource intensive, agreed that I like the extension if I ignored that bit
- aptidude187 8y agoI’m using Night Reader for Safari right now, it allows using hotkeys for toggling between dark and light. Didn’t notice any hit on the performance.
- azag0 8y agoWith Safari on macOS, the OS reports a negligible energy impact for the extension.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoJust added the extension to give it a whirl. My CPU usage is 3% to 4%, memory is ~37%, on an i7 wih 16 GB RAM (and about 100 tabs open in Firefox). I like it. I was looking for something like that for a while. Nighttime browsing on LED monitors seriously hurts my eyes, even with night light settings on. This looks like it'll do the job. I'll know tonight :)
- dmos62 8y agoWish you luck. The resource usage spikes I was experiencing were happening sporadically and some sites were more prone to it than others. I've just installed it again, we'll see how it goes.
- bootlooped 8y agoI have used it a lot on both Firefox and Chrome. It's much slower on Firefox.
- alexanderby 8y agoBad performance in Firefox is a known issue and I'm working on improving it. It's not an issue in Chrome and Safari. Low performance can be noticeable in new GMail design, but the reason is their heavy stylesheets full of unused code and images, that Dark Reader tries to analyze. Some day it will be fixed by adding some static themes for popular websites.
- crstinin 8y agoI just bought for Safari and immediately uninstalled because CPU usage was too heavy and didn't come down. Also, permissions are way too intrusive, why does the extension need to have access to all of my browsing history?
- alexanderby 8y agoThe browser doesn't separate what injected script can do and what it can't. Regarding Dark Reader, it needs to know page URL to determine if it is blacklisted by your settings or not.
- LandR 8y agoHow are you seeing what CPU usage is used on a per extension basis?
- dmos62 8y agoI'm not. Wish FF had that.
- anewguy9000 8y agoa fast and simple alternative for firefox (and android) is this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-mode/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-m... please let us know if it performs better for you! (i'm the author)
- dmos62 8y agoI've tried it just a few hours ago, at the moment it's my goto alternative, cheers! The only downside to your extension is that I can't regulate the visual contrast, so some text, like HN content text, is a bit too glaringly bright. Also, I'm not sure why, but the monospace text in the HN reply box is quite unpleasant to read when inverted. But good effort! Is it open source?
- anewguy9000 8y agoyup its open source: https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight and thanks for the feedback!
- alexanderby 8y agoCSS filters can cause heating of your phone.
- hanselot 8y agoMaybe my browser is setup incorrectly but I can't get your addon to do anything (arch). Same is true for DarkReader.
- RandomGuyDTB 8y agoI experienced the same thing. Waiting until the problem is fixed to use again but it was a really useful albeit slow extension.